TIL that British engineers laid a fuel pipeline under the English channel in a single night, under cover of darkness, to supply the Allied forces in Normandy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnCqL-bt_4U&spfreload=10



Submitted April 18, 2015 at 11:01PM by ReasonReader http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/331ntk/til_that_british_engineers_laid_a_fuel_pipeline/